R.G. Collingwood Quotes
Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.
The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.
A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that... he is going to be a beginner all his life.
Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.
Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness
What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.
The children of each generation are taught to want what they are taught they must not have.
The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.
I wish you had one of those fairy telescopes that can look into the hearts and souls of people a thousand leagues off, then you might see how much you possess my mind.
Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.
The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.
I am well aware that the path of the biographer is beset with pitfalls, and that, for him, suppressio veri is almost necessarily suggestio falsi - the least omission may distort the whole picture.
Before you are five and twenty you must establish a character that will serve you all your life.
Art has no cosmology, it gives us no view of the universe; every distinct work of art gives us a little cosmology of its own, and no ingenuity will combine all these into a single whole.
The artist must prophesy not in the sense that he foretells things to come, but in the sense that he tells his audience, at the risk of their displeasure, the secrets of their own hearts
The romantic artist expects people to ask, 'What has he got to say?' The classical artist expects them to ask, 'How does he say it?
Check and restrain anger. Never make any determination until you find it has entirely subsided.
No one who was not by nature a lover of logic, and an extreme precisian in the use of words and phrases, could have written the two "Alice" books.
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
History is for human self-knowledge…the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.
